SUBSECTION Pi VICJ I 201 



white over all, glabrous. \ iscid, hygrophanous, at times the disc becom- 

 ing irregularly cracked, conspicuous!) translucent striate when moist. 

 Context thin, firm, very waxy, water) white, becoming snow white, 



not very brittle; odor and taste mild, no color change noted in age Or 

 where bruised. 



Lamellae sharply adnexed, white, unchanging, stibdistant | 33-37 

 reach the stipe, 1-2 tiers of short individuals), broad | 3-4.5 nun . thin 

 but firm, edges even. 



Stipe 3-5 cm long, 3-5 mm thick, translucent and appearing glassy 

 when moist but not viscid, becoming opaque in age but color changing 

 very slowly, snow white in age, not staining when bruised, equal or a 

 bit enlarged above, stuffed, becoming hollow, firm and waxy in con- 

 sistency, the pith when present fibrillose, surface glabrous. 



Spores 7-9 X 4.5-6 fi, ellipsoid, smooth, yellowish in Melzer's rea- 

 gent. Basidia 24-40 X 7-10 jx, mostly 4-spored, some 2-spored. Pleuro- 

 cystidia and cheilocystidia none. Gill trama parallel to subparallel, 

 hyphae 12-23 /x broad. Cuticle a thin zone of gelatinous repent h\ - 

 phae (an ixocutis). No hypodermium differentiated. Pileus trama of 

 radial hyphae. Clamp connections present on the cuticular hyphae. 

 Lactifers in the pileus trama and gill trama, 4-6 /x broad. 



Fig. 57. H. huronensis 



